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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Robert s. Mueller iii," <fbiupdates.18_20@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: fbiupdate.s31@qatar.io
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:17:24 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: PAYMENT NOTICE FROM FBI.







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Assistant
Director in Charge

Joseph





Persichini, Jr
From:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary
Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J.
Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001
 
 
ATTENTION:





BENEFICIARY,


This is to
bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the
money
transfer originated from any part of American, African country
and
European countries as contract payment, fund inheritance or
lottery
winning due to unauthorized/incapability of financial
institutions/security





companies in releasing such huge sum of money
result of fraud,
terrorist and money laundry activities going on World
Wide.
 
We have been
having series of meetings for the passed 7 months which
ended 2 days
ago with the secretary general of the United Nations,
Central Bank of
Nigeria, HSBC Bank of United Kingdom (UK) with the
World Bank
Officials. This email is to all the people that have been
scammed in
any part of the world, the United Nations, HSBC Bank of
United
Kingdom (UK) with the World Bank officials have agreed to
compensate
them with the sum of Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars each
victim.
This includes every foreign contractor that may have not
received his
or her contract sum and people that have had an
unfinished
transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or
international
businesses that failed due to instability of government
in some part
of America etc.
 
We found your
name in our list as one of the beneficiaries and that is
why we are
contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been
signed. These
also indicate that the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of
Transfer (DIST)
often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap
Sheet, is a
listing of certain information taken from fingerprint
submissions
retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and in some
instances,
federal employment, naturalization, or military service.
This
condition is valid until 3 days after which the funds shall be
confiscated





and legal action will be taken against you.
Guarantee:
funds will be released upon confirmation of the DIST
document. Final
instruction given below;
 
1. Credit
payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has
full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries Bank in can
only release funds.
4. upon confirmation from the World Bank / United
Nations.
5. Bearers must clear Bank protocol and validation request.

 
We have
confirmed that the amount required to procure your document
which is
called the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) will
cost you a
total of $49 USD only and
the fee should be paid directly
to the
payment office Dr Kevin Ventura via Western Union Money
Transfer.
Below are the contact details of the payment office in Lagos
State
Nigeria where your fee should be paid.

Receiver's





Name:-------NUOGU  UDOCHUKWU

 
Address:
Lagos State----Nigeria
Test
Question:$49 USD
Test
Answer: Final
MTCN#:............
 

Country
Were It Was Sent From.
 

NOTE: You
should contact  Dr UZOU WILLIAMS, with his
Email:(uzou_williams.31@live.com ) on regard
with the payment
information of $49 USD via
Western Union Money
Transfer and Mail him
with the MTCN NUMBER, for him to procure your
DIST Document ready for
the release of your fund.
 
You have
hereby been authorized /guaranteed by the federal bureau of
investigation





to commence towards completing this transaction, as
there shall be
no delay once payment for the (DIST) document has been
made to the
authorized agent.
 
Note: We have
requested for the DIST document to make available the
most complete
and update records possible for the enhancement of
public safety,
welfare and security of society while recognizing the
importance of
individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the
document to us,
we will charge you with the financial crimes. The
United Nations
department of justice order 556-73 establishes rules
and regulations
for the subject of an FBI identification record to
obtain a copy of
his or her own record for review. The FBI Criminal
Justice
Information Service (CJIS) division processes these requests
to check
illegal activities and once you have completed payment of $49 USD to
the agent in charge of this transaction, you're advised to keep
us
posted to enable us follow up with the release of your payment and
act





fast.

 


 

      


 

Regards,
 
Federal





Bureau Investigation.
Robert S. Mueller III,
FBI, Director.








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